Tyndall Deborah E, Flinchbaugh Kerri B, Caswell Nicole I, Scott Elaine S
Author Affiliations: Assistant Professor (Dr Tyndall), East Carolina University College of Nursing; Assistant Director (Ms Flinchbaugh), University Writing Program, and Director of University Writing Centers (Dr Caswell), East Carolina University; and Professor (Dr Scott), East Carolina University College of Nursing, Greenville, North Carolina.
Nurse Educ. 2019 Jan/Feb;44(1):38-42. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000535.
Pedagogical practices for writing development in doctoral programs are often the by-product of completing dissertation research and may lack deliberate strategies to assist students with complex genres of writing. This article proposes a framework for doctoral education to assist students with mastery of threshold concepts in writing. Threshold concepts in writing are examined for their applicability to the evolution of writing in PhD nursing students as they begin to think and write like nurse scientists.